What Is ‘Vintage’ Anyway?
One day inter-disciplinary symposium for vintage-related research.
Friday September 9th 2016
Leeds Beckett University, UK
Deadline for abstracts: May 1st
Notification of acceptance: June 1st
‘We experience a sense of the uncanny when we gaze at garments that had an intimate relationship with human beings long since gone to their graves …They hint at something only half understood, sinister, threatening; the atrophy of the body, and the evanescence of life’ (Elizabeth Wilson, 1985, Adorned in Dreams)
This symposium, the first of its kind, seeks to bring together academics working in the area of ‘vintage’, bringing together researchers working on a range of perspectives and methodologies. The day will be of interest to those working in social or cultural studies, fashion and design history, and other fields. We welcome themes such as, for example, empirical studies, the production and consumption of clothes or homewares, collecting and curating, retail spaces, glamour, sub/cultures, nostalgia, temporalities, and understandings of ‘vintage’.
We are delighted that Professor Victoria Robinson (University of York) has agreed to be our keynote speaker.
Paper sessions: We invite contributors to submit a one page abstract to the organisers.
Please provide author name(s), author affiliation(s), author email(s), paper title, paper abstract and an indication of which author(s) will be presenting. The deadline for submissions is May 1st.
PhD Poster session: There will be a poster display and networking area.
Sessions will be organised around the topics of delegates’ presentations. Please submit a 250-word abstract (excluding references) with a title describing your research.
Organisers:
Dr Samantha Holland, Leeds Beckett University s.holland@leedsbeckett.ac.uk
Dr Kat Duffy, University of Glasgow Katherine.duffy@glasgow.ac.uk
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